re: Teach a man to Fish (Fark Board Beginner Questions)

Just a question...I'm gonna start trying to expand a little. Stuff like taking a pic from a youtube video and use that pic some place else. Like on the Fark board I just posted a request for someone to get a pic of a youtube video for me so I can take that pic and place a K-State fan's head on the Spartan from the movie 300. So, what should I use to do such a thing? As always Thanks for any help!

The biggest issue is going to be image quality. Not many YouTube videos are high definition. However, you can use a screen capture. I use a program called SnagIt. It's not freeware though. I believe you can pause a video and just hit the PrintScreen key on your keyboard to save teh image to your clipboard. Then you can paste it into your photo-editting program and crop it to the correct size.

Now, you can get crisp, clean images from video using blue-ray. But that's a very high quality input (i.e. not YouTube).

Hi guys, SIAP but how do you add faces to gifs? I use new layers but when I paste the face on the first layer (I use CS5) it doesn't show up on the rest of them. I end up trying to edit each layer and faces aren't exactly the same size and it looks off. Thanks!

quote:What do you do to make it appear someone is looking through a window, instead of just having the face as the top layer, along the lines of the lines of Sandusky looking in the window?

If you have just his face as a layer, adjust the opacity until it gets hazy, you can make streaks using a 10% opacity paint brush in white to get a really nice effect. Same thing for adding glasses to someone's face.

quote:Hi guys, SIAP but how do you add faces to gifs? I use new layers but when I paste the face on the first layer (I use CS5) it doesn't show up on the rest of them. I end up trying to edit each layer and faces aren't exactly the same size and it looks off. Thanks!

There are several ways around this....

The long way would be to make the face how you like it, then copy as many times as you need then merge into each layer.

Since you have CS5, go to window and open timeline once you have all the layers you want. It opens up each layer as a frame in the gif. You can turn off and on layers from the layer window to show what you want in each frame.

I have a few questions about gifs. I'm using gimp, but have trouble adding colors to the gifs and transparent layers. When I add colors, they usually come out much darker than they should be and I cannot make a transparent layer. I've looked for tutorials on youtube, but to no avail. Any help or links to would be appreciated.

Could someone teach me or show a youtube link on how to get a background transparent image under 30 kbytes? I made it myself but I still haven't figured out how to retain the size and get it under 30 kbytes.